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4 Capital Journal, Salem, Oregon, Saturday, July 13, 1946
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Inviting Lawlessness
Closing their eyes to cold facts and figures and paying no
heed to solemn warnings from such recognized authorities
as J. Edgar Hoover, chief of the federal bureau of investiga
tion who admonishes the nation that the coming winter will
be one of record lawlessness, Salem's city budget committee
has by its niggardly disregard of police department requests
for more funds hung out the welcome sign to every drifting
crook who wanders this way. Hoover estimates that the
country will have an army of six million criminals to contend
with during the coming winter and declares that crime is
everywhere on the increase.
But the budgeteers don't have to go far afield to get
competent evidence of this trend. Records of the police
department illustrate the existence of that same tendency
here:
Reports of the Salem police for the months of April 1945 and
1946 reveal that there were five times as many robberies com
mitted this year as last; that burglaries reported were 24 times
as numerous as during April of last year; that the 50 cases of
larceny chalked up in April of last year were smothered under
an avalanche of 72 cases of that nature last April, and that local
automobile thefts numbered 18 this year as compared to ten
during the previous April. Robberies during the month of May
balanced equally during the two years, but burglaries rose from
a score of ten in 1945 to 28 this year. Auto thefts ran neck and
neck with nine reported for each day, but larceny complaints
rose from 54 in 1945 to an even
' To cope with this alarming condition the department last
year, aside from its headquarters staff, had a force of 18
patrolmen, eight of them assigned chiefly to traffic duty,
two plainclothesmen and two detectives. It had and still
has only three cars for use on motor patrols. Three of these
men were added to the force about eight months ago to
meet an emergency. When it came to preparing its budget
estimates for the coming year the department, foreseeing the
serious outlook for the coming 12 months, asked lor nine
new men and continuance of the three temporary patrolmen
carried over from last year.
patrol cars and incidental equipment.
Had all of its budget requests been granted, the police
department would still be short of men and equipment with
which to combat the mounting wave of crime. But it was
cut off short at the Dockets, authorization for continuance
of'the three temporary patrolmen through the coming year
being the sole concession made to the serious situation loom
ing ahead. No concession whatever has been made to the
fact that the probable annexation of outlying suburbs to
the city in this month's elections will add several miles to
the street system which must De patroueo. rsor nas any
consideration been given to the demands which increasing
traffic is adding to the police duties, a demand which cannot
be ignored much longer.
Final action on adoption of the 1946-47 city budget is
scheduled for next Monday night. Before giving its final
approval the council should make such changes In the budget
as are needed to insure the city of police facilities adequate
to meet the clearly indicated demands of the next 12 months.
The Malaria Threat
Following the war between the states, 1861-65, and again
after the Spanish-American war of 1898 malaria flared up
in explosive epitiemics centering aruunu reiuruiiiK iiimuujr
carriers, but no similar epidemic occurred after hostilities
had ceased in the first World
ing took place in countries not subject to the disease. Now,
with thousands of servicemen already home and other thou
sands being returned from the Philippines, Malaya, Burma,
the Mediterranean and other well known centers of malaria,
health authorities are looking for a recurrence of the disease
that is not a killer but one that may cause lasting damage
to the victim.
While Marion county health department records fail to
show malaria in endemic form, certain sections, such as the
Jow country south of Ankeny hill, have produced cases in
scattered numbers each year. The return from war of thou
sands of carriers makes the situation a bit more serious
and medical authorities are on the lookout for trouble.
; The anopheles mosquito, distinguished from his more nu
merous cousins, culex. bv his angular position on the victim
rnther than the horizontal, is
fnanner of transmission of the disease is iairly simple. A
malaria mosquito bites a carrier, thereby securing a small
Supply of infected blood. Then in about two weeks the
mosquito bites a second person who subsequently becomes
infected. Thus a chain of carriers is established and the
disease rapidly becomes endemic. (F. E. Z.)
Twin Beds Mean Better
Marriages, It Says Here
Chicago, July 13 IU.R) Married couples are discovering that
they will slay together longer if they sleep apart, J. Paul Fanning
laid today. "They'll also sleep better," he said. Fanning, sec
retary and general manager of1
the National Association of Bed-
ding Manufacturers, said that
demands for twin beds increased
hy 50 percent during the war.
And the trend still is toward
twin beds, he said.
2 "Husbands and wives arc dis
overing that two in a bed
(hakes a crowd." he said. "They
are Retting tired of dodging each
jjther all night."
J Fanning said that most peo
ple sleep like tops they spin
all night. The average sleeper
Changes his position at least 20
times a night. Really active
nes turn over 45 times.
"You have to turn to be re
laxed," he added. "If there's a
big barrier there, it won't let
you roll over, and you won't
test as well."
" Judge John P. Scarbaro, who
has heard hundreds of divorce
asrs, said Fanning was right,
t "Many people are together
too much because they share
double beds," Scarbaro said.
They have to go to bed and
get up at the same time so they
won't disturb each other. With
twin beds, they can do as they
rjlense.
"Its unfortunate that so many
touplcs who seek divorces have
iever ilept in twin beds."
OREGON
Editor and Publisher
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or otherwise credited in this paper
OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
100 this last May.
It also requested additional
War because most of the fight
the real mischief maker. The
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Dies in St. Paul
St. Paul, Minn., July 13 (IP)
Rudolph M. Weyerhaeuser. 78,
of the famous lumber family,
died yesterday of a heart ail
ment. Weyerhaeuser, president of
Potlntch Forests, Inc., of Lewis
ton, Idaho, was a director in a
number of large firms, among
them the Northern Pacific rail
way the Weyerhaeuser Timber
Co. and Weyerhaeuser Sales Co.
Among survivors are two
nephews, D. Davis Weyerhaeus
er and J. P. Weyerhaeuser of
Tacoma. Funeral services have
been set for Monday.
Pickers Still Needed
Lebanon Pickers for cane
berries are still needed, the
farm labor assistant, Bud Page,
reports this week, although the
ending of the cherry season has
brought many cherry pickerj to
the berry fields. The boysen
berry crop is just beginning to
come in heavily and the peak
will be reached next week.
There are about 60,000 retail
druggists in the United States.
Recollections j
L.
IN THE GOOD OLD DAYS THE CAfS
WITH A HIGH REAR ENTRANCE , .
WERE A CONSTANT SOURCE OF M,
EMBARRASSMENT p THE LADIES. ffiW
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The Fireside Pulpit
Reverend George H. Swift
Rector, St. Paul's Episcopal Church
Impartiality Rain is falling steadily here today on Whidby Is
land in Puget Sound. Some people call it a million dollar
rain. Hundreds of other people whose plans have been upset,
cannot understand why it has to rain In July and spoil their day!
While one group of people was praying for rain, another was
praying for sunshine; both
groups, we can believe, were
God-fearing people who re
membered the words of our
Lord, "ask and ye shall have."
It is quite obvious that as far
as the rain Is concerned, He
"sendeth His rain upon the just
and the unjust." Temporarily,
it may upset someone's plans,
but in the long view of things,
the vacationers themselves
would be put to greater incon
venience if God should with
hold the rain and there would
be no harvest.
As a matter of fact we are
all dependent on God's gifts of
both rain and sunshine, whether
we are farmers, merchants, me
chanics, doctors or clergymen.
Our unanswered prayers may
make us bitter at the time, but
p9 tor
By Don
If all the sunshine we've had
around these parts this summer
were laid end to end and turned
into a tape line it wouldn't go
around the belly of an average
sized boysenberry. And we don't
care what Clay Cochran of the
Chamber of Commerce says
about this, either. In fact, we
think he'll be too smart to be
little the size of the average
boysenberry by trying to deny
the part about the sunshine.
When a guy these days be
gins thinking about a dollar
bill in the terms of butter it's
size is shaved down smaller in
proportion than it was when
they abandoned the old wall
paper type of bill for the ab
breviated one. In fact, the com
parison with a pound of butter
makes It look like a special de
livery postage stamp.
Ed Brasher, the custodian of
the courthouse building and
grounds, discovered an undam
aged upper plate this morning
reposing on the lawn toward
the High street side. Deputy
Novelties
In the News
Bt tht AsBorlnted Preu)
Shrimp We Got
Tulsa, Okla., July 13 (IP)
The following came from a food
store advertisement in the Tulsa
Tribune;
Shrimp. We have It but it's
too high. I wouldn't buy. Regu
lar 20 cent size now 89 cents."
Seasoned Drivers
Salt Lake City, July 13 ")
Police Sgt. F. Clark Sanford
believes he'll turn out some
well-seasoned drivers in his
current driving class. Among
the 64 students are Melba Su
gar and Dale Salt.
Build Bridge, Find River
Bend, Ore., July 13 (IP)
Workmen are building a bridge
out this way and when they
finish they're going to put a
river under it.
The Deschutes river channel
is being shifted to avoid soil
erosion.
Kickback
Chicago. Julv 13 (Pi Fnr the
last 20 vears L(n Zipntplc an
eviction bailiff, has been carry
ing out court orders to move
people out on the street.
Last March Zientok'a land
lord notified him he would have
to move from his apartment so
his daughter could have a home
when her husband returned
from service
NOW Zipntelr tc fnrA
the problem of kicking himself
out of his own apartment fol
lowing issuance of a court or
der for his eviction.
later, as time unfolds, they may
prove to be among our greatest
blessings. We must not be too
hasty in passing judgment on
the acts of God.
In His infinite wisdom, God
sends His rain and sunshine to
benefit all mankind if a fam
ily picnic, a fishing trip, a
cherry orchard, or a Monday
wash is spoiled thereby, they
nevertheless must not stand in
the way of God's will in pro
viding the greatest good for the
greatest number.
It, of course, requires consid
erable spiritual vision and pa
tience to be able to say under
all adverse circumstances, "The
Lord gave and the Lord hath
taken away, blessed be the name
of the Lord!"
Supper
Upjohn
Sheriff Jimmy Garvin, who has
a habit of sneezing out his up
pers when crossing High street
denied same wag his and ex
hibited his own in the right
place to prove It. So Ed has left
the plate with the sheriff's of
fice for anyone to claim who
can identifly same.
From the number of upper
plates being lost we think may
be it would expedite things if
the FBI would put in a false
plate print system like the one
used with finger prints with the
populace all gouging on hunks
of litmus paper and have them
filed away against the time they
get absent minded. It would
save a lot of worry and it would
use up less space in the sheriff's
office to file away the hunks of
litmus paper for future use,
than to have to file away the
plates. In fact the vault space
at the courthouse Is getting so
cramped now if there are many
of these plates come in they'll
have to be strung like a catch
of fish and hung out of the
courthouse windows.
No end of brave deeds have
been recounted done by the
boys in our armed forces dur
ing the late war and it got to
be almost second nature with
them to expect to take their
lives in their hands whenever
they stirred about. But there
also are brave deeds enacted in
peace times, and not the least
of these is done by the guy who
tries to cross Center street in
his car at 5 p. m., any day at
the Liberty. High or Commerc
ial street intersections. Come to
think of it, a chap who tries
this isn't really what you'd
call brave, he's just foolhardy.
We didn't see it but report
came in that the flag on the
courthouse was hauled aloft up
side down this a. m. Well, from
what we hear the country is in
a pretty topsy, turvy condition,
anyway, and mabe this only
reflected general conditions.
Young- Poole Home
Mill City James Poole, Jr.,
of the U. S. navy arrived home
July 3, following his discharge
at Bremerton the previous day.
Poole enlisted during his high
school term and has been in
the navy for 19 months. He
served as a communications of
ficer in Hawaii during the last
five months of his enlistment.
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By DeWitt MacKenzle
The breakdown of Chinese
distribution of UNRRA food,
resulting in Director General
LaGuardia ordering all but
emergency supplies withheld
from China, appears to have
been due to grave "mishand
ling," to use a euphemism. But
call it by any name you will
and it still is a tragedy in view
of the terrible famine conditions
in that stricken country.
UNRRA staff members in
China have accused Generalis
simo Chiang Kai-Sheck's gov
ernment of failing to get ma
terials to millions in the inter
ior, and of using relief goods
for political ends. It is said that
supplies also are reaching the
black markets.
T. T. Tsiang, head of the Chi
nese national relief and rehab
ilitation administration (CNR-
RA), in appealing to Mr. La
Guardia to rescind the order
cutting relief, admitted to news
men that "local interference by
both sides" (Chinese national
ists and Chinese communists)
had prevented supplies from
reaching assigned areas. He de
clared, however, that this con
tavened orders by both Gen
eralissimo Chiang Kai-Shek and
the communist commanders.
A Lot Unexplained
All this leaves a lot unex
plained, and I have before me
a letter from a well-informed
American resident of China
which takes the matter a good
deal deeper. This letter deals
with what is known as "squeeze"
in China. "Squeeze" Is the
equivalent of "honest graft."
That's what the butler gets when
custom permits him to help
himself to his lordship's whis
key and port. "Squeeze" is a
preogative which is widely con
doned in the Orient by tradit
ion. The letter at hand says that
squeeze" is an accepted fact
in every negotiation, even with
the handling of UNRRA sup
plies by the Chinese.
"It would be interesting,"
continues the writer, "to know
what a small percentage of the
relief supplies ever reach the
war devastated areas in China,
for every person handling them
gets his "squeeze" and the
starving people are inland so
far that many workers handle
the supplies."
The Estimates
In this connection Tung Pi-
Wu, chairman of the commun
ist relief organization, stated
Friday that only half of one
percent of all UNRRA supplies
sent to China had seeped
through to communist areas.
Previously UNRRA employes in
Shanghai had estimated that
less than two percent of relief
goods reached the communists
districts, a statement which T.
F. Tsiang described as "mislead
ing" since it didn't take into
account the almost complete
breakdown of communications
due to the war, and to the fact
that many supplies were ma
chinery and the like not intend
ed for the interior.
In any event there is no dis
pute about faulty distribution.
But that isn't the most shock
ing point dealt with by the let
ter at hand. My informant, writ
ing under date of June 5, men
tions having seen supplies from
original UNRRA shipments on
sale in the Shanghai black-market.
'
Poor Transportation
Of course "squeeze" and other
bad handling of supplies doesn't
by any means account for all
the difficulties. It is all too true
that - there is scant rail and
water transportation remaining
in China after the long years
of war-time destruction, and
former President Herbert Hoov
er said In Shanghai on May 30
that the tonnage needs of relief
were greater than the transpor
tation facilities.
At that time Mr. Hoover des
cribed the food need of China
as "enormous," with whole vil
lages in the interior facing ex
tinction. He said it was impos
sible to compute the numbers
of people in critical conditions,
but no doubt they ran into mil
lions. Unhappy China bears a
heavy yoke of suffering.
The first torpedo, the "spar
torpedo" of the Civil War, was
a long ram with a bomb on the ,
end of it. I
ARKIE & HIS JOLLY
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DANCE HALL
LIBERTY & FERRY STS. SALEM
Tuesday, July 16, 19468:30-12 p.m.
Admission $1.00 (including tax)
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Pianist Ralph Dobbs ol tne
school of music, Willamette
university, who will be present
ed in recital at 4 o'clock Sun
day afternoon in Waller hall.
WU Concert
Series Opens
Ralph Dobbs, pianist of the
Willamette university school of
music, will present a concert in
Waller hall auditorium Sunday
afternoon at 4 o'clock.
The concert formally opens
a series of activities to be pre
sented during the eight-week
summer session on the campus.
The pianist is well known in
Oregon for his many presenta
tions. One of his most recent
performances will be a duo
piano concert with Mrs. Dobbs
in the Portland art museum.
Sunday's program will be in
three parts with numbers by
Kittle-Bauer, Galilei-Respighi
and Bach-Busoni opening the
concert. Chopin's Sonata B Flat
Minor Op. 35 constitutes the
second portion, while five num
bers in lighter vein will con
clude the performance.
Portland Rent
Law Studied
Portland, Juy 13 UP) The
mayor's recommendation that
Portland consider establishing
local rent control before Aug. 1
the date on which rent in
creases would go into effect
Mayor Earl Riley asked the
council to consider both the
tenants' proposal, of continuing
OPA ceilings, and the land
lords' suggestion, of establish
ing a fair rental bureau which
would act against individually
reported "excessive rent" cases.
Five hundred Portlanders
turned out to a "buyers strike
rally" last night and voted to
ask Oregon congressmen to back
price control. Speakers, pre
dicting high price increases
should OPA be permanently dis
carded, urged local price ceil
ings if federal action fails. State
Budget Director George K. Ai
ken said Governor Snell was in
vestigating possible price con
trol. Robert Canon, chairman of
the American Veterans' commit
tee, told the audience every
house which raises rent unfairly
will be picketed. His committee
extended its picket lines yes
terday from the downtown mar
ket to a residence where the
tenant complained of a rent in
crease from $18 to $35 a month.
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Arrival of Yankee Wives
Means Housecleaning Siege
By Hal Boyle
Berlin, July 13 (Pi Living in a bomb-damaged German house
under repair is a real adventure in Babel. American wives
waiting to come to Berlin have no idea what an agony of Katzen-
jammer housecleaning their
husbands are enduring to ready
some kind of a home for them
At present I am dwelling in
a home in suburban Zehlendorf
which Dick Kasischke, an As.
sociated Press correspondent, is
having fixed up for his wife and
daughter.
It wasn't a bad foxhole at all
when we moved in. The plumb
ing on opposite sides of the
house worked on alternate days,
the roof was okay and. although
there weren't any window panes
left in my room, the bed was
comfortable and the rain didn't
blow in very far.
Beer Kept Cool
Downstairs the dining room
did look a little as if it had been
used for a chicken coop, but this
didn't matter because we were
eating out anyway at an army
mess. Besides, the icebox
worked well enough to keep
the beer cool and the grand
piano wasn t missing any im
portant keys.
We were very comfortable.
It was a nice house. I liked it
because it was the only house
I ever saw in Germany that
didn't have a picture of Bis
marck on the wall. All we had
was a statue of the first Kaiser
Wilhelm.
Then the German housekeep
er and the two elderly maids
learned that "the American
housefrau" Mrs. Kasischke
would soon be here from De
troit. The storm struck.
"Ziss house no American
woman live In it," said the
housekeeper.
Since then we have been en
veloped in a domestic whirl
wind of dust, mops, pails, paint,
cement, floor shaving and teu
tonic arguments between the
housekeeper and the battalion
of German glaziers, plasterers,
painters, gardeners, woodwork
ers, and plumbers supplied by
the army for "operation make
ready." Leering Through the Door
We wake up sneezing and go I
to bed coughing and the place
smells like a hardware store. It
looks like a cross between a
carpenter's ball and a circus
grounds with the big tent just
going up.
Each morning I awake to see
half a dozen kraut workmen
leering through the bedroom
door. I can't get into the bath
room because two plumbers are
banging on the pipes. They tear
out a pipe and cuss the Versail
les treaty. They put the pipe
back in and complain about the
four-power occupation.
They carefully scrape the
floor clean. The plasterers ar
rive and work on the ceiling.
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That means the floor has to be
done again.
The glazier says he has done
a good job of restoring the glass
in a big hinged window on the
sun porch. The housekeeper
says he hasn't put in enough
wooden cross supports.
Argument Settled
"Verdammt," says the old
glazier. He triumphantly lifts
up the window the whole
pane falls out and showers
around his ears in broken frag
ments. That settles that argu
ment. Every time a rose blooms out
side, one of the gardeners come
steaming in to report like the
anchor man on a mile relay.
He brings in half the garden
on the shoes, and one of the
maids takes a look at the rugs.
And tells him what she would
like to do to him.
After two weeks of steady
sawing and hammering and
brush-slapping the old home
stead is beginning to glisten
like an ad in a homeowner's
magazine, but Kasischke is still
wearing that haunted look com
mon to husbands at houseclean-V
ing time.
'I am afraid," he says look
ing around doubtfully," my
wife will still want one or two
changes made."
That, I guess, is my signal
to change foxholes.
Biggest Pack
Stayton The biggest pack of
Royal Ann cherries ever re
ceived here was barrelled dur
ing the past season according to
officials of the Stayton Can
ning Cooperative company. The
cherries were brined.
Mohammedans first used cof
fee to keep awake during long
religious ceremonies.
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Fainting
Ice cream socials were a
popular way of raising
money for a good cause?
Each family donated a
freezer of cream and a cake
or two. You were served
at tables on the lawn dec
orated by Japanese lan
terns. The event was al
ways a success because no
body counted their calories,
and that homemade ice
cream was the best you
ever tasted. Remember?
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